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The Ball is in Eskom's Court

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | June 28, 2011

When we went to Eskom headquarters yesterday , what we wanted to do was highlight the fact that coal kills, and call on Eskom to stop construction on Kusile and start investing in renewable energy instead. Until they change course,...

Why Greenpeace Takes Direct Action

Blog entry by Melita Steele | June 26, 2011

Non-violent direct action is at the heart of what Greenpeace does in our mission to expose crimes against the world we live in, and find real solutions. Internationally, these actions are probably what Greenpeace is best known for.

Kumi responds to his father's day letter

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | June 20, 2011

Yesterday Naomi Naidoo sent her father a letter for father's day. As you may know, her father, kumi Naidoo, is the head of Greenpeace and is currently in jail in Greenland after he scaled an Artic oil rig.  This is Kumi's response...

Actions Speak Louder than Words

Blog entry by Nick Young | June 20, 2011

Today eleven activists appear in a Danish court facing serious charges for a  simple act of protest   in Copenhagen a year and a half ago, while Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo remains in a Greenlandic jail...

Father's Day letter to Kumi from his daughter

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | June 19, 2011

>> Read Kumi's response to this letter here . Early yesterday morning Kumi Naidoo, the Global head of Greenpeace, scaled the Arctic oil rig we have been trying to stop over recent months. Like the 18 Greenpeace activists who were...

Kumi Naidoo boards Arctic oil rig demanding Cairn’s oil spill response plan

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | June 17, 2011

At 6:45 am this morning an inflatable speedboat carrying Kumi was launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. It evaded a Danish navy warship that has been circling the rig for several weeks and delivered Kumi to the base of the rig...

African Voices UK Tour Video: speaking out against Europe's ocean plundering

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | June 17, 2011

For the  African Voices tour , three West African fishermen travelled to the UK to speak out about the harsh reality of the UK's hunger for fish: while their communities rely on the seas for vital protein, industrial-sized  European...

Italian People Vote "YES" to a Nuclear-Free Future – SA Must do the Same!

Blog entry by Rianne Teule and Michael Baillie | June 14, 2011

Led by Berlusconi, Italy can be a strange place. But amidst the madness comes a little sanity. This week, Italians were asked to vote on the use of nuclear energy, and almost 95% were in favour of a nuclear-free future! It's...

What the Judge Said

Blog entry by Nick Young | June 10, 2011

Over the past few weeks we’ve been  campaigning to stop risky oil drilling in the Arctic  – by taking direct action up here off the Greenland coast and by shining a light on Cairn Energy’s failure to publish its oil spill response plan...

Today We Fight Carin Energy in Court

Blog entry by Nick Young | June 6, 2011

Today our fight for the Arctic moves from the frozen seas of Greenland into the courts of Amsterdam and Greenland. Following our  first occupation of its oil rig  at the beginning of last week Cairn  filed for an injunction  with...

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